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Arab civilization, which is part of human heritage, has faced through its long history great challenges aimed at breaking its will and subjecting it to colonial domination, but it has always rose through its own creative abilities to exercise its role in building human civilization. The Syrian Arab Republic is proud of its Arab identity and the fact that its people are an integral part of the Arab nation. The Syrian Arab Republic embodies this belonging in its national and pan-Arab project and the work to support Arab cooperation in order to promote integration and achieve the unity of the Arab nation. The Syrian Arab Republic considers international peace and security a key objective and a strategic choice, and it works on achieving both of them under the International Law and the values of right and justice. http://www.makeahistory.com/index.php/recent-news/43064-draft-constitution-for-the-syrian-arab-republic-damascus-referendum-day-photo-essayArab civilization, which is part of human heritage, has faced through its long history... more
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The Ironic News Report is a satirical news parody that skewers politics and current events. This weeks edition talks of tea party economics, Republican Candidates, and even Alex Trebek!
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This week's Question: The Italian Prime Minister called his own country 'shitty'. Here in the US, TX governor Rick Perry wanted to secede from the union. Is that the same insult?The Ironic News Report is a satirical news parody that skewers politics and current... more
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Japan's parliament elected Yoshihiko Noda as the country's new prime minister Tuesday, making him the country's sixth new leader in five years.The prime minister-elect will officially take over his new post after a ceremonial endorsement by Japan's emperor, which is expected to happen Wednesday.
link:http://edition.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/asiapcf/08/30/japan.politics/Japan's parliament elected Yoshihiko Noda as the country's new prime... more
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Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's foreign minister said late Saturday that talks are underway between Moammar Gadhafi's government and figures in the eastern part of the North African nation.
Benghazi-based opposition spokesman Jalal Igallal, however, strongly knocked down reports of any discussions between anti-government figures and officials in Gadhafi's regime. He urged Foreign Minister Musa Kasa to say who is being talked to, if such negotiations are in fact ongoing.
Meanwhile, city councils in areas no longer loyal to Gadhafi have chosen former Justice Minister Mustafa Abdul Jalil to head an interim government that would represent all of Libya and ultimately be based in Tripoli, according to Amal Bogagies, a member of the coalition of the February 17 Uprising, and a separate Libyan opposition source. Both are based in Benghazi.
Protests began February 15 in that eastern city, Libya's second largest. It and many others in Libya are now thought to be under opposition control, according to eyewitnesses. There have been numerous reports of widespread violence, some of it perpetrated by foreign mercenaries and military and security forces loyal to Gadhafi.
Kasa, the foreign minister, told CNN's Nic Robertson that the country was close to a civil war situation. Earlier Saturday, Saif al-Islam Gadhafi -- one of Moammar's sons and a top official in his government -- blamed foreigners and wayward youth for the bloodshed, while telling reporters that "life is normal" in Tripoli and that the unrest had ceased.
MORE - http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/africa/02/26/libya.protests/?hpt=T1Benghazi, Libya (CNN) -- Libya's foreign minister said late Saturday that talks... more
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A Short Compilation on the Crisis in Tunisia.
Violent anti-government protests drove Tunisian President Zine El Abidine Ben Ali from power Friday after 23 years of iron-fisted rule, as anger over soaring unemployment and corruption spilled into the streets. (Jan. 14)
The ingredients that fueled the change in Tunisia can be found in many other countries of the Middle East and Africa – high unemployment, deplorable living standards, repressive governments, and a lack of basic freedoms. Add to this mix another element -- a young population, educated, and well-connected through Facebook, Twitter and other social media – and one is left to wonder where the next spark might ignite.A Short Compilation on the Crisis in Tunisia.
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Silvio Berlusconi has been formally placed under investigation on suspicion of paying for sex with a 17-year old girl, according to a statement issued today by prosecutors in Milan.
He was further accused of abusing his position as Italy's prime minister by bringing pressure to bear on the police to cover up his alleged relationship with the girl, who was working as a prostitute. The two alleged offences carry sentences totalling 15 years in jail.
The statement said Berlusconi, who has not been charged, had been invited to present himself for questioning. The prosecutors said he had been formally made a suspect on 21 December, but the news only broke today on the website of the Italian daily Corriere della Sera.
Berlusconi's legal team said today the investigation was "absurd and groundless" and the allegations raised had already been denied by the main figures in the case. They called the inquiry a "very serious interference in the private life" of the prime minister.
The reported investigation concerns Karima el-Mahroug, otherwise known as Ruby Rubacuori or Ruby Heartstealer, a then 17-year-old Moroccan girl who told investigators last year that she had attended parties at Berlusconi's villa near Milan. One of these, she was reported to have said, ended in an erotic game known to participants as "bunga bunga".
The case came to light after Mahroug, first named in some reports as Karima Keyek, was arrested last May on suspicion of theft. She had run away from a care home, but instead of being returned to care she was handed over to a confidante of the prime minister, Nicole Minetti.
A half-British former showgirl, Minetti became Berlusconi's dental hygienist and, soon afterwards, a regional parliamentarian for his Freedom People movement. Corriere said police raided her office in Milan this morning.
Minetti is already under investigation for aiding and abetting prostitution, along with two other close associates of the prime minister, a newscaster on one of his three television channels and a showbusiness talent scout. Corriere reported that the police attempted to search the office of another Berlusconi confidante, but withdrew after it was claimed that the premises were covered by parliamentary immunity.
The age of sexual consent under Italian law is 14, but paying for sex with a prostitute under 18 is an offence that carries a sentence of up to three years. Politicians and others found guilt of abusing their position risk jail sentences of up to 12 years.
Berlusconi, who spent part of this morning meeting with his lawyers, gave no immediate reaction, but his education minister, Mariastella Gelmini, said the prime minister was the "object of persecution by certain prosecution services".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/jan/14/berlusconi-investigated-teenage-prostitution-caseSilvio Berlusconi has been formally placed under investigation on suspicion of paying... more
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Latest Complete News Updates New Ruby Scandal 2011 Today: recently posted its ninth consecutive earnings surprise. Any one of the many allegations levelled at Mr. Silvio Berlusconi over the years would probably...Latest Complete News Updates New Ruby Scandal 2011 Today: recently posted its ninth... more
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Latest News Updates Singapore leaders believe Malaysian opposition leader Mr Muhammad Anwar Ibrahim had sex with a male aide in a honey trap set by his enemies, according to leaked US cables published by WikiLeaks on Sunday.Latest News Updates Singapore leaders believe Malaysian opposition leader Mr Muhammad... more
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David Cameron has been accused by campaigners of breaking the law by cracking an "appalling" joke comparing Commons Speaker John Bercow to one of the Seven Dwarfs.A charity which helps people with primordial dwarfism and other forms of restricted growth said the comments were a form of harassment - and called for talks with the Prime Minister.In a dig at Bercow - believed to be 5ft 6in tall - Cameron said health minister Simon Burns had asked his driver to reverse into the Speaker's car.When Bercow said he was "not happy" about the incident, Cameron quipped to journalists at a Westminster lunch on Wednesday, Burns retorted: "So which one are you?".In June, Health Minster Burns publicly apologised after calling the Speaker a "stupid, sanctimonious dwarf" in the Commons.He said he was sorry for any offence he had caused after the insult was branded "derogatory and deeply offensive" by the Walking with Giants Foundation (WWGF).Prime Minister Cameron's spokeswoman said he had made "light-hearted comments not intended to cause offence".But John Connerty, WWGF co-founder and charity secretary, launched a fierce condemnation of the Prime Minister's decision to "glorify" the previous incident."Once again we have an influential figure, if not the most influential person in the country, making distasteful references about a person's lack of height," he said."It was bad enough having a minister of health make similar distasteful comments but to have the Prime Minister himself glorify the comments in a joke is totally unacceptable and downright appalling."
It's been a week full of polittical gaffes: first it was Sarkozy calling a reporter a paedophile, then Sarah Palin got her geography wrong, again, and said that she was standing by her North Korean allies, and then finally a newly appointed Tory peer called Howard Flight said that changes to the welfare system will make it harder for the middle classes to have kids but lead to poor to breed.
David Cameron has been accused by campaigners of breaking the law by cracking an... more
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Nguyen Tan Dung, the Prime Minister of Viet Nam has stated that the United Nations is the top partner of Viet Nam. Nguyen Tan Dung was speaking on the occasion of 65th anniversary of the United Nation.Nguyen Tan Dung, the Prime Minister of Viet Nam has stated that the United Nations is... more
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Th Prime Minister has offered to step into the fire battle for the Hobbit feature, after the latest dispute caused Peter Jackson to threaten to shoot the film in Europe and not New Zealand.
The article says the dispute is between the film-makers and the Actors union in New Zealand. Zealand Actors' Equity Union is backed by the MEAA from Australia and the MEAA accuses the Hobbit for not working within union rules and told actors to boycott the film.
"claiming Jackson and studios New Line and MGM were offering non-union agreements with no guaranteed minimum payments or conditions.
The film-maker responded with a terse "open letter" in which he angrily condemned the boycott, calling MEAA an "Australian bully boy" and claiming its agenda was "based on money and power". "-Guardian
It sounds like 400 actors are endorsing the claims by MEAA but faces an online petition against the boycott, which is said to be taking place during these negotiations.Th Prime Minister has offered to step into the fire battle for the Hobbit feature,... more
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So the Pope has been and gone, leaving behind him the opportunity for The Prime Minister to overuse the word "Faith", and attempt to paint himself in a golden light, using the darkness of the previous ruling party as a contrast. Utter twaddle, in my opinion.
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http://talkingskull.com/column/kingdom-united/pope-pills-and-popSo the Pope has been and gone, leaving behind him the opportunity for The Prime... more
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Shoes and eggs have been pelted at Tony Blair as he attended his first book signing in the Irish Republic.
The missiles, which were thrown by anti-war protesters, did not hit the former prime minister as he arrived at a bookshop in Dublin.
Activists clashed with Gardai as they tried to push down a security barrier outside the Eason store on O’Connell Street.
Campaigners, who turned out in the pouring rain, were chanting: “Hey hey Tony hey, how many kids have you killed today?” They also shouted: “Tony Blair war criminal” and “blood on your hands”.
Undercover detectives mingled with the crowds taking names before Mr Blair arrived at the shop at about 10.30am on Saturday.
The city tram service was suspended as Gardai blocked off streets surrounding the city centre store. Shops in the area also closed, with Penny’s department store pulling down its shutters as scuffles broke out.Shoes and eggs have been pelted at Tony Blair as he attended his first book signing in... more
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Tony Blair triggered Labour civil war last night as he tried to demolish Gordon Brown’s character and record as prime minister – and hand the party leadership to David Miliband. His memoir took spectacular revenge on his long-time rival, who he describes as ‘maddening’ and ‘impossible’. And Mr Blair shocked Labour MPs as he went on to back the Coalition’s economic policy.
link: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1308021/Tony-Blairs-memoirs-Cherie-didnt-help-night-I-animal.htmlTony Blair triggered Labour civil war last night as he tried to demolish Gordon... more
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David Cameron has defended plans to use credit rating firms to "go after" people fraudulently claiming benefits.
He said the firms, which check spending on things like bills and credit cards, would help cut fraud of £1.5bn a year.
One firm, Experian, said it was in talks over a deal which could see it get a "bounty" for cheats it uncovers.
"Private companies use all sorts of different means to make sure they are not defrauded, why should the state be any different," Mr Cameron said.
Addressing an audience in Manchester, he said: "We've got to reduce the budget deficit. We've also got to fund welfare for those people who really need it.
"There are some people who are claiming welfare who are not entitled to it and that is just wrong and that should stop. Both things, fraud and error, go together and I want to cut them both."
great, just great, why don't our backward politicians put their miniscule brains to better use and get rid of the queen who lets face it, is the biggest benefit thief ever!!!!!!!
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-10922261David Cameron has defended plans to use credit rating firms to "go after"... more
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Toronto - world leaders are gathering today to discuss several topics, including how to implement their commitment at their last meeting to phase out fossil fuel subsidies worldwide. Below is a play by play, beginning with the most recent post.
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Here is an analysis of what the G-8 accomplished versus the four criteria for success:
* G8 leaders honor their promise to keep global temperature rise below 2°C.
Status: Incomplete
The G8 leaders have failed to commit to greenhouse gas emission reductions that would prevent run-away global warming. They have reaffirmed their commitment to keeping global temperature rise below 2 degrees celsius, but their support for the Copenhagen Accord sets us on a course for a three degree or worse world.
* G8 and G20 leaders phase out subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, something they committed to last year, and producing clear evidence that they are taking real steps towards this promise.
Status: Incomplete
While the G20 is expected to announce details on a phase out of fossil fuel subsidies in their communiqué on Sunday, the G8 today has instead announced new subsidies for dirty energy - more dirty coal and nuclear power.
* To lead the world in building a green energy future, the G20 must agree to create financial and regulatory conditions that incentivise a green economy.
Status: Failed
We need more than platitudes on building a green economy. We need targets and timetables; we need detail on programs; regulations; and price mechanisms. The G8 has delivered none of these.
* Developed G20 leaders switch subsidies for fossil fuels to providing resources to the poorest countries to adapt to global warming, switch to a clean energy economy and stop deforestation.
Status: Incomplete
The G8 has reaffirmed they are putting in place their fast-start climate contribution, but it is far from clear that these funds are new and additional. To rob development to fund climate is not progress. Furthermore, the global phase out of fossil fuel subsidies in wealthy countries is estimated to come to $100 billion annually. That is the exact same amount of money the Leaders committed to provide for climate finance and renewable energy developments by 2020. Clearly they have a source to make good on that commitment.
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$5 billion committed to children's health and maternal child development.
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G-8 Leaders release an agreed communiqué. Russian offshore oil drilling text didn't make it into the final communiqué. Coal did. Clean energy hard to find...
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Rumor has it that President Obama will commit to cutting $38.8 billion in fossil fuel subsidies over ten years, reflecting the cuts in the Administration's budget proposal to Congress. This would be a good first step. Oil Change International lists additional subsidies that President Obama could cut. Governments submit what they will cut tomorrow at the G-20.
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What would make the G-8 and G-20 a success?
* G8 leaders honor their promise to keep global temperature rise below 2°C.
* G8 and G20 leaders phase out subsidies to the fossil fuel industry, something they committed to last year, and producing clear evidence that they are taking real steps towards this promise.
* To lead the world in building a green energy future, the G20 must agree to create financial and regulatory conditions that incentivise a green economy.
* Developed G20 leaders switch subsidies for fossil fuels to providing resources to the poorest countries to adapt to global warming, switch to a clean energy economy and stop deforestation.
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The B-20, a gathering of CEOs hand picked to attend the G-20 by governments, is attending the G-20 in part to dissuade heads of state from supporting the Robin Hood Tax, which would create a small tax on banks to fund a clean energy transition, measures to adapt to the changing climate, and funds to protect global forests. One of the companies invited: HSBC, which has had a track record of financing the destruction of global rainforests. A second, Suncor, the company behind the Tar Sands in Canada.
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Proposed text from G-8 meeting calls for a green economic recovery and offers no details except building 20 new coal plants... in a meeting about phasing out fossil fuel subsidies... huh?
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President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron are meeting today to discuss whether calling BP "British Petroleum" rather than "BP" is offensive to people in the England as well as the war in Afghanistan.
Our sources say that Russia will submit text for all of the G-20 leaders to sign saying:
"Drawing the lessons from the recent catastrophic oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico we recognize the need to develop international mechanisms and procedures in regulating activities on protecting marine environment, preventing accidents related to offshore exploration and development, and dealing with their consequences if they occur."
Russia, of course, has a strong interest in drilling in the deep water of the Arctic. The Coast Guard, by the way, says that an oil spill in the Arctic is their "nightmare scenario." Clearly, the only way to avoid such disasters is by banning all offshore oil drilling.
While President Obama and Prime Minister Cameron discuss the word "British," oil continues to gush into the Gulf and Russia is proposing policies at the G-8 that would allow offshore oil drilling while "dealing with their consequences if [accidents] occur."
This meeting is the moment for the U.S. and the UK to come together to spearhead an ambitious plan to move the world beyond oil, end of fossil fuel subsidies, and revive the global economy with green energy investments.
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http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Admin/BkFill/Default_image_group/2010/6/27/1277675732343/Protests-outside-the-G8-a-006.jpgToronto - world leaders are gathering today to discuss several topics, including how... more
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CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A sudden revolt within Australia's ruling party gave the country its first woman prime minister, who promised Thursday to safeguard her government's reforms in education, health and industrial law.
Julia Gillard had been deputy to Prime Minister Kevin Rudd since their Labor Party swept to power in a landslide election victory in 2007.
In a sudden move that took many government lawmakers by surprise, she challenged Rudd late Wednesday to hold a leadership ballot only month out from an election expected this year.
Rudd acknowledged that the party's factional power brokers had lost faith in him and did not contest the leadership at a party meeting on Thursday, leaving Gillard to be elected unopposed.
"I asked my colleagues to make a leadership change ... because I believed that a good government was losing its way," Gillard told reporters.
"And because I believe fundamentally that the basic education and health services that Australians rely on and their decent treatment at work are at risk at the next election," she said.
"I'm well aware that I am the first woman to serve in this role, but can I say to you, I didn't set out to crash my head on any glass ceilings," she added.
Gillard and her new deputy, Wayne Swan, were to be sworn into their offices on Thursday by Australia's first woman Governor-General, Quentin Bryce, within hours of the ballot.
Swan retains his key financial portfolio as treasurer and will to fly to Canada on Friday for a summit of Group of 20 major economies in Rudd's place. He was also elected unopposed. Gillard has yet to announce any other ministers in her new cabinet.
An emotional Rudd, flanked by his wife and three children, gave his final speech in the prime minister's court yard at Parliament House on Thursday, during which he rated keeping Australia out of recession at the top of his list of achievements during his short tenure.
He said he would contest the next election and continue to serve his party.
Rudd had ridden high in opinion polls as one of the most popular Australian prime ministers of modern times until he made major policy backflips, including a decision in April to shelve plans to make Australia's worst polluters pay for their carbon gas emissions.
Gillard signaled no major policy changes during her first press conference, saying that negotiations with the mining industry would continue over the government's plan to introduce a new tax on mineral profits after the next election.
But she would end an advertising campaign that is promoting the tax, keeping a Labor promise that Rudd broke to never use taxpayers' money for political advertising.
John Wanna, an Australian National University political scientist, suspected that Gillard might push for an earlier withdrawal of Australia's 1,550 troops from Afghanistan in a bid to reverse a swing of left-wing voters away from the government.
She is from a left-wing faction of Labor, while Rudd had been supported by the party's right faction.
Gillard was likely to be less focused on foreign policy than Rudd, a Mandarin-speaking former diplomat to Beijing who campaigned to create a new forum for Asia-Pacific nations and for an Australian seat on the United Nations Security Council, Wanna said.
"He has been trying to get Australia punching above its weight in terms of international relations when a lot of the world thought of us as another state of the United States," Wanna said.
Wanna said dumping Rudd for Gillard months out from an election was risky for the government.
"We've got rid of a successful prime minister after two and a half years and we've never done that before in the past," Wanna said.
Gillard was born in Barry, Wales, in 1961, the second daughter of a family who migrated to Adelaide when she was 4 years old in search of a warmer climate for her lung complaint.
A former successful lawyer, she has been attacked by some opponents as unsuitable to lead because she is childless and therefore out of touch with most Australians.
Despite Australia's weathering the global downturn, recent polling puts the center-left government neck-and-neck with the conservative opposition. One poll earlier this month showed Labor trailing the opposition for the first time in more than four years.
Rudd is a Labor hero, having led the party to victory at 2007 elections after 11 years in opposition.CANBERRA, Australia (AP) — A sudden revolt within Australia's ruling party... more
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Prime Minister David Cameron has angered some of his MPs by trying to reform the Tories' powerful backbench committee to open it up to ministers.
Membership of the 1922 Committee is usually restricted to backbench MPs when the party is in government.
But Mr Cameron wants the body to allow ministers a vote, reportedly arguing they must be "one party".
MP Bill Cash described it as a "great tragedy" while Christopher Chope said it came as "a bolt from the blue".
The 1922 Committee is separate from the Tory leadership, and keeps it informed about the mood on the back benches
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/8693078.stmPrime Minister David Cameron has angered some of his MPs by trying to reform the... more
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